{"id":124,"date":"2019-02-26T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/?p=124"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:24:21","slug":"a-warehouse-full-of-equipment-but-more-importantly-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/2019\/02\/26\/a-warehouse-full-of-equipment-but-more-importantly-people\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warehouse Full Of Equipment, But More Importantly, People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Al Holloway set out to find a makerspace in Kalamazoo, he discovered there wasn\u2019t one\u2014so he created the Makers\u2019 Guild. Holloway, who serves as the Air Zoo\u2019s technical resources manager, is among the founders of the nonprofit Kzoo Makers. Theresa Coty O\u2019Neil, Project Editor for Southwest Michigan\u2019s <em>Second Wave<\/em> \u201cOn the Ground Kalamazoo\u201d series, covered the makerspace as part of her reporting on the Eastside Neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kzoo Makers operates out of a former warehouse on East Michigan Avenue. According to Holloway, the group needed substantial electrical capacity and enough open floor area to support a full woodworking shop, metal shop, welding equipment, laser engravers, 3-D printers, an electronics lab, and additional tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the extensive equipment, Holloway emphasizes that the people using the space are what make it function effectively. Members share knowledge, assist with one another\u2019s projects, and learn new skills from fellow makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Al Holloway set out to find a makerspace in Kalamazoo, he discovered there wasn\u2019t one\u2014so he created the Makers\u2019 Guild. Holloway, who serves as the Air Zoo\u2019s technical resources manager, is among the founders of the nonprofit Kzoo Makers. Theresa Coty O\u2019Neil, Project Editor for Southwest Michigan\u2019s Second Wave \u201cOn the Ground Kalamazoo\u201d series, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoomakers.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}